I wish we would do away with Daylight Saving time. The holidays are often times of sadness for lots of adults, and when we change our clocks back one hour, it makes it dark at around 4:30pm in the East, so not only is the darkness, depressing, but the holiday blues dont help.
It takes about 20 days for pigeon eggs to hatch. After the eggs are hatched, the baby pigeons are known as squabs. Both the mother and father pigeons will feed the babies crop milk, a protein and fat rich substance that is created in an esophageal sac called the crop.
The incubation period is 14 to 19 days, but the young are cared for in the nest for another 12 to 18 days. Homing pigeons (Colomba livia) possess a group of neurons that are used to help the birds process changes in the direction, intensity, and polarity of magnetic fields around them.